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Category Archives: The Drill
What Does The Prayer (Hymn) Really Say? Iesu Redemptor Omnium
Here’s an experiment. Today in the Vetus Ordo we honor St. Pius X, of happy memory. For Lauds, we have the hymn Iesu Redemptor Omnium. I spotted something in it which made me want to drill a bit. Let’s see what … Read More
Are we caught in a culture of pervasive lies? VIDEO
Not asking the right questions can also be a form of lying.
A four letter word
Diane Montagna posted on her Substack (I have one now also) a piece by distinguished liturgist Fr. Alcuin Reid who commented on Leo XIV’s General Audience on Wednesday 26 August. It was the last address about Sacrosanctum Concilium. Leo said … Read More
Posted in Leo XIV, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Save The Liturgy - Save The World, The Drill
Tagged Alcuin Reid
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11 Comments
QUAERITUR: Have we brought Jesus Christ closer to the people entrusted to us?
The role of the Church and of churchmen is to bring clarity, not ambiguity, calm not a “mess”, understanding not confusion. If what we are experiencing is, in the balance, ambiguity, a “mess” and confusion, then something has gone seriously … Read More
Posted in Hard-Identity Catholicism, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged synodality
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9 Comments
The Big Lie of Mr. Cricket
Mr. Cricket (aka Andrea Grillo) has embraced the theory of The Big Lie. The “große Lüge” was coined by a certain 20th Austrian dictator and wielded by his propaganda minister. The idea is that when one lies, one should lie … Read More
This has me concerned because personnel is policy.
This has me concerned. Now we read this. SCANDAL: Pope Leo appoints pro-female ordination and pro-LGBT consultors to the Vatican’s religious life dicastery. Appointees include Sister Patricia Murray, who has pushed women’s priesthood and addressed the “pain” and “woundedness” of … Read More
A bishop starts a new TLM, another takes one well-settled one away
Leo signaled to the French bishops that he wants them to be good to people who desire the Traditional Latin Mass. The Bishop of San Angelo, Texas, starts a new TLM “motivated by the salvation of souls”. And now we … Read More
Bp. Schneider: “Danger!”
At LifeSite Bp. Scheider has commented. Bp..Scheider (and I) were at the Augustinianum in Rome, the Patristic Institute. He knows something about the ancient Church (and so do I). Bishop Schneider: ‘Nothing more dangerous for religion’ than liturgical ‘interference’ The … Read More
A Tale of Two Cardinals: unity in diversity v. unity in uniformity
On 2 August Ad Vaticanum published the remarks of Card. Sarah about the Traditional Latin Liturgy of the Roman, Latin Church. Read it there, but here’s a summary of the piece with my added emphases and comments (aka “zisking”). Essentially, … Read More
Venerator Sti Lot on Daily Rome Shot 1694: “And now I learn that the Vigil of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin sees the publication of a collection…”
